Berlin 6 Open Access Conference: Dieter Imboden

Open Access Research Funding Organisations (RFO) between green, gold, and the colour of money Dieter Imboden Vice President of EUROHORCs Berlin 6 – Changing Scholarly Communication in the Knowledge Society Düsseldorf 11-13 November 2008

[object Object],[object Object],EUROHORCs‘ Recommendations on OA (I)

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[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],EUROHORCs‘ Recommendations on OA (III) Present situation: Only ca. 50% of MO have signed the Berlin Declaration and only a few have mandatory rules.

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Financial consequences of OA for RFOs Where would the problem go? Who pays for repositories?

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Number Acrobatics How do these figures compare with the total annual budgets of the major publishers of scientific journals? How many peer-reviewed journal articles are produced by the European research system?

[object Object],Number Acrobatics (II) The biggest journal publishers (the “Big20”) publish about 60% of all journals and about 70% of all articles (about 1’000’000 per year). With an average charge of € 2000 per article for ‘golden OA’ (or hybrid), OA of these articles would cost 600 M€ , i.e. about 2.5% of MOs’ budget. How many of these articles are related to EUROHORCs MOs? – Let us assume 300’000 per year.

[object Object],Number Acrobatics (III) About 50% of the articles published by the Big20 can be made OA (author-sponsered OA). The average price asked by the publishers for author-sponsered OA is 2000-3000 € per article, i.e. of the same order of magnitude as the average production cost per article. Libraries of many universities subscribe not only to the paper edition of journals, but also buy the right for OA for all their researchers. Author-sponsered OA is only of value for scientists who are not related to a library with OA subscription. In most cases, author-sponsered OA means paying for OA twice, (1) by the library and (2) by the author.

[object Object],Who shall negotiate for OA? Since these agreements are confidential, only episodic conclusions are possible. For instance, according to some sources the Wellcome Trust has signed an agreement with Elsevier according to which the former pays 3000$ (about 2000€) per article to make OA all information originating from research funded by the W.T. Organisations like EUROHORCs or ESF should should seriously seek an agreement between ROs and publishers to make all articles available by OA for a much lower price.

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